Readers who want to understand America’s current tariff strategy would do better to think less about orthodox economics, and more about the realpolitik that motivates Trump. There are three ...

Editor's note: This is a preview of The 1600, Newsweek's daily newsletter where politics editor Carlo Versano makes sense of Beltway politics for people outside the Beltway.

T-day – or Tariff Day – is coming this week. Or not. We simply won’t know until it’s here, given that US President Donald Trump changes his mind about policy daily. But assuming reciprocal ...

T-DAY – or Tariff Day – is coming this week. Or not. We simply won’t know until it’s here, given that President Donald Trump ...

Malcolm Harris’ latest book, What’s Left, presents a stark assessment of the climate crisis and a serious consideration of ...

Such Cold War thinking of realpolitik can no longer be called sustainable pragmatism. Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100. He was the guru of U.S. diplomacy under Presidents Richard ...

The “state is the coldest of all cold monsters,” taught Nietzsche. And so, realpolitik claimed its due. In 1979, Cairo signed a peace treaty, followed by another pact in Amman in 1994.

The Afghan refugee crisis in Pakistan is a complex issue. A situation that has evolved over four decades cannot be resolved ...

One thing that the Brussels summit showed was that the refugee crisis is increasingly becoming an exercise in realpolitik for Europeans. There is no way around cooperating with Turkey, the EU's ...